Dentifrice-applicator.



L. G. DAVIS.

DENTIFRIOE APPLIGATOR.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 17. 1912.

1,052,043,. Patented Feb. 4, 1913.

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L. O'uDavic, 3y fi fly Attorney.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LAWRENCE C. DA VIS, CEDAR FALLS, IOWA, ASSIG-NOR OF ONE-HALF TO W. R. GRAY,

' OF CEDAR FALLS, IOWA.

DENTIFBICE-APPLICATOB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 4, 1913.

Application filed June 17, 1912. Serial No. 704,131.

Toall whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAWRENCE C. Davis,-

invention relates to improvements in dentifrice applicators, and the object of myimprovement is to provide holding-means for strips of porous material sultable to retain a dentifrice in its interstices or pile, such holding-means being convenient to use, and being adapted to release a stri when used for successive employment 0 other hke strips of treated fabric. This ob ect I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved holding-means. Fig. 2 is a side elevation with the swinging clip raised. Fig. 3 1s a plan View of such hold1ng-means, show1ng a tufted .or piled piece of fabric secured thereon removably by means of said swinging clip. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the parts shown in said Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a front end elevation of the said holding-means shown in Fig. 2, with the clip raised. Fig. 6 is a front end elevation of the parts shown in said Fig. 3, and Fig. 7 is a plan of a piece of flexible tufted or piled fabric such as used to be impregnated by a dentifrice and then removably secured on said holding-means.

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The invention comprises two parts, one 'a flexible piece of fabric 6, which may be 0 a textile or other suitable substance and which is porous or otherwise formed on the middle line of its upper surface, as by tufts or "a pile 7, to hold and retain a dentifrice. A plurality of such pieces 6 may be supplied a user, arrangedin a superposed manner for convenient disposal and storage, and quickly separable from one another. The other part of the invention is the holding-means for" such pieces 6, and which comprises a handle part 1 of similar form to that of the handle of an ordinary tooth-brush, somewhat contracted at or near its left-hand end, said lefthand end then being drawn out more thinly then bent upon itself, with the inverted part spaced apart from the handle-part 1 at its end 2 and made concave upwardly, the extremity of said concave part 4 then being bent back upon itself so as to contact with theupper surface of the part 2. The parts 2 and 4 are preferably formed of the same width. A looped clip 5 has" its inturned ends swingingly' pivoted in a transverse orifice formed tqrough the diminished part of the handle 1,

t e parts of said clip being of sufficient w d'th of interspace to pass over and inclose both the part 4 of the holding-means and also the piece of fabric 6 overlying the latter. The longitudinal edges of the part 2 of the holding-means have longitudinal prooves 3, and when the clip 5 is secured about the edges of the piece 6 and -'the part 4, the side parts of the clips spring inwardly enough to engage-the fabric between themselves andsaid grooves, thus firmly securing the parts together for use. When the strip 6 has been ulsled, it may be removed by swinging up the c 'p 5.

The holding-means may be formed of any suitable material, such as aluminum, and the clip 5 may be of steel or other wire. The pads or pieces 6 may be made of woven cotton-or other material having a raised nap or pile 7, or of other porous substances which are suitable to hold and retain a dentifrice and then give it up when in use.

The device is thus conductive to cleanly use, since the pieces 6 areremovable after once using, and the other parts are simple, 1i ht and easily cleaned or made aseptic. Since the part 4 of the holding means is made thin and is not fixed at its bent-over extremity, it is resilient, and therefore gives enough to permit it to be used effectively 95 about the teeth.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A body having a part inverted and 100 spaced apart therefrom, a piece of flexible fabric supported upon said inverted part, and a looped cli hinged to said body and adapted to detac ably'secure the edges only of said fabric between itself and the in- 105 verted part of said body.

2. A body having a handle-part and an integral inverted part concaveoutwardly, and spaced apart therefrom, the handle-part having grooves on its edges below said inverted part, a piece of faloric adapted to overlie said inverted part and said engaging-means, and a looped clip hinged to said handle-part and adapted to detachably secure said fabric between itself and said grooves.

3. in combination, a handle having one extremity curved over in spaced apart relation to itself and reduced in thickness to form resilient holding-means, a piece of dentifrice-holding material overlying said resilient part, and means connected movably to said handle'adapted to detachably secure said fabric over said holding-means.

d. in combination, a handle, an integral spaced-apart holding bar on one end thereof weenie with one end integral with the handle-end and its other end bent over toward the handle, a piece of fabric supported upon said holdinghar to overlap it all around, and a looped clip having its ends pivoted to opposite sides of the handle and adapted to he swung to and from said fabric to clamp the edges of the latter upon the handle edges at the sides thereof.

Signed at Waterloo, llovva, this 31st day of May 1912.

LAWRENCE G. DAVIS.

Witnesses: I

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